Medicine Quotes

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth.

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.

The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

When men die of disease they are said to die fromnatural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?